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Community Affairs Officer) 90 

Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 

Minnesota 55480-0291: 

1. John T. Vucurevich Foundation, 

Rapid City, South Dakota; to become a 

bank holding company by acquiring 

84.48 percent of the Class B common 

stock and 11.85 percent of the Class A 

common stock of United 

Bancorporation, and thereby indirectly 

acquire United Bank, both of Osseo, 

Wisconsin; Cambridge State Bank, 

Cambridge, Wisconsin; Lincoln 

Community Bank, Merrill, Wisconsin; 

Bank of Poynette, Poynette, Wisconsin; 

Clark County State Bank, Osceola, Iowa; 

Farmers State Bank, Stickney, South 

Dakota; and Farmers & Merchants State 

Bank, Iroquois, South Dakota. 

C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Todd Offenbacker, Assistant Vice 

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198-0001: 

1. The Protection Bank Holding 

Company, Inc., Protection, Kansas; to 

acquire up to 100 percent of the voting 

shares of Citizens State Bank of 

Ashland, Kansas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 6, 2007. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–13404 Filed 7–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies; 

Correction 

This notice corrects a notice (FR Doc. 

E7-12775) published on pages 36455-

36456 of the issue for Tuesday, July 3, 

2007. 

Under the Federal Reserve Bank of 

Chicago heading, the entry for 

Metropolitan Bank Group, and Alpha 

Bancorp, Inc., both of Chicago, Illinois, 

is revised to read as follows: 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414: 

1. Metropolitan Bank Group, Inc.; 

Alpha Bancorp, Inc.; Metropolitan 

Bancorp, Inc.; and Plaza Bancorp, Inc., 

all of Chicago, Illinois; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of Oswego 

Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly 

acquire voting shares of Oswego 

Community Bank, both of Oswego, 

Illinois. 

Comments on this application must 

be received by July 26, 2007. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 6, 2007. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–13405 Filed 7–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (Eastern Time), 

July 16, 2007. 


PLACE: 4th Floor Conference Room, 


1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 


20005. 


STATUS: Open. 


MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 


1. Approval of the minutes of the June 

19, 2007 Board member meeting. 

2. Thrift Savings Plan activity report 

by the Executive Director: 

a. Monthly Participant Activity 

Report. 

b. Legislative Report. 

3. Quarterly Reports: 

a. Investment Policy Review. 

b. Vendor Financial Reports. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 

Dated: July 9, 2007. 

Thomas K. Emswiler, 

Secretary to the Board, Federal Retirement 

Thrift Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 07–3391 Filed 7–9–07; 11:33 am] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; 

American Health Information 

Community Meeting 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

15th meeting of the American Health 

Information Community in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.) The 

American Health Information 

Community will advise the Secretary 

and recommend specific actions to 

achieve a common interoperability 

framework for health information 

technology (IT). 

DATES: July 31, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 

3 p.m. (EDT) 


ADDRESSES: Hubert H. Humphrey 


building (200 Independence Avenue, 


SW, Washington, DC 20201), 


Conference Room 800 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: visit http:// 

www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will include a presentation by 

the Personalized Healthcare Workgroup 

on Recommendations; an update on 

activities of the Certification 

Commission for Health Information 

Technology; a presentation on use cases 

and the 2008 AHIC priorities for the 

national HIT agenda; a report from the 

AHIC Standing Committee of the Whole 

on the AHIC Successor; and a report 

from the Health Information Security 

and Privacy Collaborative. 

A Web cast of the Community 

meeting will be available on the NIH 

Web site at: http:// 

www.videocast.nih.gov/. 

If you have special needs for the 

meeting, please contact (202) 690–7151. 

Dated: July 2, 2007. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Director, American Health Information 

Community, Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. 07–3364 Filed 7–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Designation of a 

Class of Employees for Addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice of a 

decision to designate a class of 

employees at the Dow Chemical 

Company, Madison, Illinois, as an 

addition to the Special Exposure Cohort 

(SEC) under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000. On June 22, 2007, 

the Secretary of HHS designated the 

following class of employees as an 

addition to the SEC: 

Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) 

employees who were monitored or should 

have been monitored for exposure to thorium 

radionuclides while working at the Dow 

Chemical Company site in Madison, Illinois 

for a number of work days aggregating at least 

250 work days from January 1, 1957 through 

December 31, 1960, or in combination with 

work days within the parameters established 

for one or more other classes of employees 

in the special Exposure Cohort. 

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This designation will become 

effective on July 22, 2007, unless 

Congress provides otherwise prior to the 

effective date. After this effective date, 

HHS will publish a notice in the 

Federal Register reporting the addition 

of this class to the SEC or the result of 

any provision by Congress regarding the 

decision by HHS to add the class to the 

SEC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: July 6, 2007. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 07–3363 Filed 7–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–17–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Medicare Prescription Drug, 

Improvement, and Modernization Act 

of 2003 Section 1013: Request for 

Nominations—The Effective Health 

Care Stakeholder Group 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of invitation to submit 

nominations for the Effective Health 

Care Stakeholder Group. 

SUMMARY: The DHHS Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality 

(AHRQ) invites nominations from 

interested organizations and 

knowledgeable individuals for a 

Stakeholder Group to support the work 

of the Effective Health Care Program, 

funded under Section 1013 of the 

Medicare Prescription Drug, 

Improvement and Modernization Act 

(MMA) of 2003. The goals of this 

program are to develop evidence on the 

effectiveness and comparative 

effectiveness of different treatments and 

health care interventions of importance 

to the Medicare, Medicaid, and State 

Child Health Insurance. To achieve 

these goals, AHRQ is supporting 

projects to review, synthesize, generate 

and translate published and 

unpublished scientific evidence, as well 

as identify important issues for which 

existing scientific evidence is 

insufficient to inform decisions about 

health care. This evidence will be made 

readily available to all heath care 

decision-makers. The Stakeholder 

Group is critical to the success of this 

project, providing input to the program 

in collaboration with the Effective 

Health Care Scientific Resource Center 

(currently based at the Oregon 

Evidence-based Practice Center). 

The role of the Stakeholder Group 

will be to: 

• Provide input on critical research 

information gaps for practice and policy 

and on identifying and developing the 

key research questions to address these 

gaps. 

• Provide input on implementation 

issues for Effective Heath Care program 

reports and findings. 

• Define information needs and 

identify types of projects that will be 

most useful. 

• Provide feedback from report users. 

• Provide guidance on the program as 

a whole for quality improvement. 

• Provide guidance on how the 

program can have more of an impact 

with users. 

Members will serve as volunteers for 

a two-year period from October 2007 

through September 2009. Stakeholder 

Group members will attend 3–4 

meetings per year as part of this process. 

Meetings will be held in Rockville, MD 

and Portland, Oregon. Meetings will be 

1-2 days in length. The Scientific 

Resource Center (SRC) will make the 

travel arrangements. The first meeting 

will be held on October 26, 2007, in 

Rockville, MD. 

Members are expected to actively 

participate in meetings and to engage in 

related activities by phone and e-mail 

between meetings. Between-meeting 

work may include assisting with agenda 

planning and session preparation for 

Stakeholder meetings, consulting with 

SRC or AHRQ staff on constituency 

issues, and serving as a resource to the 

Effective Health Care Program. It is 

anticipated that the Stakeholder Group 

member time commitment between 

meetings will not exceed 10 hours. 

The Stakeholder Group will be 

composed of up to 15 members. The 

group will represent several broad 

constituencies of stakeholders and 

decision-makers at the policy, system, 

and clinical levels, which will include: 

• Third party healthcare payers 

(including, but not limited to public 

State or Federal Medicare or Medicaid 

programs, and private insurance health 

plans and Health maintenance 

Organizations). 

• Employers and health-related 

business groups. 

• Pharmacy and therapeutic 

committees. 

• Healthcare providers. 

• Patient/consumer organizations. 

• Consumers of Federal and State 

beneficiary programs. 

• Healthcare industry professional 

organizations. 

• Academic researchers (including, 

but not limited to those with expertise 

in evidence-based methods and 

effectiveness and translational research). 

Self-nominations are encouraged. 

Materials to be submitted are a cover 

letter and curriculum vitae or similar 

supportive documentation. The cover 

letter will provide information on how 

the nominee’s experience, skills and 

roles fit with the composition and goals 

of the Stakeholder Group as described 

above. Specific information on nominee 

experience in the constituency groups 

described above is required. Nominees 

chosen for the Stakeholder Group will 

be required to declare and submit 

conflict of interest documentation. This 

will not necessarily preclude service. 

Nominees may indicate their 

willingness to be considered in 

subsequent calls for nominations if not 

selected for this Stakeholder Group in 

their supporting documentation. 

All nominations received by 

submission deadline will be reviewed 

by a committee composed of 

representatives from AHRQ and the 

SRC. Nominees who best represent the 

broad constituencies described as the 

goal for composition of the Stakeholder 

Group will be selected and notified by 

September 28, 2007. In addition, AHRQ 

is interested in fostering diversity and 

including representatives of, or 

individuals with expertise regarding, 

populations experiencing health care 

disparities and in this case individuals 

with expertise regarding chronic 

conditions and health care needs of the 

Medicare, Medicaid, and State 

Children’s Health Insurance Program 

(SCHIP) populations. 

DATES: Nominations for the Effective 

Health Care Stakeholder Group must be 

received by August 31, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations for 

consideration may be e-mailed to 

EffectiveHealthCare@ahrq.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Effective Health Care Program at (301) 

427–1502 or 

EffectiveHealthCare@ahrq.gov. 

More information about the Effective 

Health Care Program is available at 

http:// 

www.EffectiveHealthCare.ahrq.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nominees 

not selected for the Stakeholder Group